Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Breaking News: New Orleans' mayor's name is Ray Nagin
Posted by Alejandro de los Rios on Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:09 PM
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I was just on my way out the door when I heard the oh-so-familiar sound of Wolf Blitzer taking to Ray Nagin on CNN. For those of you that missed it, Blizter said (repeatedly) that he was impressed with the city's handling of the NBA All-Star game last year and that New Orleans is "coming back, slowly but surely". Not news for us in the Big Easy, but surely it can't hurt for a national media outlet to emphasize this.
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Nagin, for his part, talked about how he was assured by President Barack Obama (It sounds sweeter the more you say it. President Barack Obama.) that New Orleans will be rebuilt and that he will follow through on the "broken promises" of the Bush Administration (that was also noted on the new White House Web site).
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Some other interesting points were raised:
- Nagin talked about how New Orleans is rated as one of the best cities to ride out a recession. He may have been citing this Business Week article.
- Blitzer's co-host (I believe it was Don Lemon) mentioned that, because New Orleans is in complete rebuilding mode, it could serve as a model for cities all over the country that are looking for federal aid in this tough economic climate.
- Nagin derided the beaurocracy that has bottlenecked fedral funds coming into New Orleans. He also said that "we are ready with projects that we could go ahead with tomorrow" if the money were available. He also said that, even in the current economic climate, the estimated $700 million that are needed isn't "that much" and that "we seem to be printing money all the time." Though he didn't really talk about the effect of cutting funding for education and sanitation will have on the city.
- Apparantly "everyone's talking about" some close-up shot of Nagin at the inaguration. I only found this one. Is there another "everyone's talking about"?
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It's a topsy turvy media national media world for sure when the local sentiment about Nagin can be so..."strong" and yet the national media perception is so...glowing. Sigh. I counted about 4 long pans of Nagin on TV yesterday during the inauguration speech. Can't remember what station. Nothing spectacular, just close ups of a constant deer in the headlights look on Nagin's face each time. I Nagin he was seriously listening, reflecting on and processing what Obama was saying and how it reflects on his own actions in the City of New Orleans. I Sincerely do.
This was the one I saw: at 10:49 http://is.gd/gCZS What I found particularly ironic was that it was right at the point that The President was talking about government accountability. Will
here is something from nola.com. It refers to the same point as the previous post, but I couldn't open that link... Pretty interesting, I would say... http://blog.nola.com/notesonneworleans/2009/01/god_is_trying_to_tell_you_some.html
Anybody found the broadcast online to see what the deal is with that background?
Transcript is here: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/21/sitroom.01.html
i've been praying for everbody in new orleans because no one is still taking this serious i'm sorry for the widows and elderly who suffered most new orleans louisiana will be served well because god is alive and well god takes care of his people and i will keep updated with the levee breach and don't wanna settle because justice has to be served people didn't have to die becaause bush don't like blacks or because ray nagin was a cable man thats insane but i do know that blacks will be blessed
